Georgian-Swedish teams celebrate Eastern Partnership anniversary with friendly football match
The Georgian team handed a defeat to Sweden six to one at the Mikheil Meskhi stadium in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi. Photo: Georgian Football Federation
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A friendly football match was dedicated to the tenth anniversary of Eastern Partnership (EaP) and Georgian-Swedish friendship this Friday.
Football game ????⚽️⚽️⚽️ celebrating #EaP10 Match between top ???????? veteran footballers and ???????? diplomats demonstrates how #StrongerTogether we are! @kakhakala @SwedeninGE ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/dj0Y1D6P7J
— MFA of Georgia (@MFAgovge) May 31, 2019
Football Legends - GeorgianXI with Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze and Foreign Minister Davit Zalkaliani handed a defeat to the Swedish Brussels Euroleague Team six to one at the Mikheil Meskhi stadium in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi.
???????????????????????? Celebrating #EaP10, Swedish-Georgian friendship, and our goal in tonight’s football game! Congratulations ???????? on well deserved win!@SwedeninGE#StrongerTogether#EasternPartnership pic.twitter.com/ZYvl94Drz4
— Ulrik Tideström ???????? (@UTidestrom) May 31, 2019
Watch the video with Swedish Ambassador Ulrik Tideström, preparing the Deputy Head of Mission Eric Salmgren von Schantz for the big game.
The Eastern Partnership is a joint initiative involving the European Union, its member states and six Eastern European partners: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
Radosław Sikorski and Carl Bildt, former Foreign Ministers of Poland and Sweden, respectively, were the initiators of the EaP format back in 2008.
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